Related Articles
Washington Uprising! Demonstrators Occupy the Capitol and Demand Fair Budget
Posted on Author oly mike
Folks are coming to Olympia in droves this week to demand a fair State budget. This is a week of action based on demands for a fair budget that were delivered to the lawmakers on March 17th. The Olympia Coalition for a Fair Budget put on a bang-up day of speech and music and entertainment […]
An unholy alliance is strangling Uncle Sam
Posted on Author admin
Be scared. Be very scared. [Graphic: Uncle Sam being drowned in a bathtub, with five hands choking his throat] An alliance in the Republican Party has a stranglehold on the US political system. The five hands choking Uncle Sam to death belong to Tea Party members and other libertarians, whose uncompromising opposition to taxation is […]
Adam Smith
Economic Justice
Rick Larsen
Social Safety Net
Socialism for the rich
Suzan DelBene
Washington State Politics
The food stamp cuts hit WA State especially hard
Posted on Author Brendan Williams
*Number of U.S. households with food stamps cut $90/MO under farm bill: 850,000 *Number of those households in WA: 200,000 (23% of national total) *WA Congressional Democrats supporting cut: 6 of the 8 [all but Adam Smith and Jim McDermott] *WA Post Editorial: “[T]his legislative grotesquerie gives to the rich and takes from the poor. […]